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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Domesticated?

Question: What is the most numerous domesticated animal in the United States?Answer: The honeybee.

Hands up those who think honeybees are domesticated?

UPDATE 15/04/05 Some definitions of domesticated from the web and my verdicts on bee domestication:

animals tamed and taught to live with humans -- NOPE!

animals whose breeding and living conditions are under human control for the purposes of using them for food -- close

domesticated animals whose collective behavior, life cycle, or physiology has been altered as a result of their breeding and living conditions being under human control for multiple generation -- somewhat